Family of lung cancer victim settle action against HSE

The family of a woman who died from cancer who claimed that she was wrongly diagnosed at two hospitals in the Midlands as suffering from depression have settled their High Court action against the HSE for €65,000.

Esther Galvin (aged 65) from Horseleap, Moate, Co Westmeath a mother of 10 children, grandmother of 23 and great grandmother of four died in early August 2006 almost nine months after she was diagnosed as having lung cancer.